site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Monday, May 09, 2005, at 07:29AM, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:

But 5 parameters instead of 4? I tried to look up the mapping in Google as I'm currently resisting to take an in-depth course in PPC assembly ...

Sometime between when the Motorola PPC books were published and today, the decision was made to allow a bitmask to be the fourth argument to rlwinm, and to have the assembler automatically calculate the fourth and fifth arguments to rlwinm as documented (mask begin/mask end). This IBM documentation page describes the details: <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/rlwinm.htm> William Kucharski kucharsk@mac.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com